Lazy Days

I'm a lazy person by nature. If I could get away with it, I would wear pajamas all day and not do a dang thing productive. Unfortunately you can't actually have a life that way, and you certainly can't afford a life that way. This is why I live for the weekends - I dedicate five days a week to sustaining life so that I can have two perfect days of nothingness each week. My two perfect days of nothingness are rarely empty of things to do which defeats the whole concept, but I'll take what I can get.

Sleeping in - The older I get, the harder it is to sleep the day away without pharmaceuticals. I remember in college (because we never slept past 8 when I lived at home) I'd sleep until 11 or noon or 2 without even trying. Now I'm lucky if I can make it to 8 am. This morning for example, I woke several times during the night, and then finally called it quits on sleep around 7:15. That is about an hour longer than I get to sleep on the weekdays, so I'll take it.

Laundry - I was blessed with a husband who loves to play video games all night long. How is this a blessing? He does laundry while he's playing. He sorts, washes and dries. All I have to do is hang up, fold, and put away. Not a bad deal.

Yard work - Again, blessed with a husband who doesn't quite love yard work, but he does it all so that I don't have to, thus protecting me from injuring myself in some 'walking down the driveway' freak accident. It's happened before, it will happen again. All I have to do is look after the plants in the two planters out front. Sometimes we have flowers in them...sometimes dead plants.

House work - Another benefit of J playing games all night is eventually he gets so frustrated that he puts down the controller and has to clean something. Score! It is rare that I wake on a Saturday and the floors aren't freshly vacuumed and/or mopped, the furniture shined and dusted, and the kitchen counters don't sparkle. There are usually dishes in the sink though. That's the one thing he doesn't do - dishes. I could have it worse, right?

Puppy care - Weekends are used to take the girls in to have their nails ground and Cadie to be groomed. They hate it. I'm not a fan either, but it's got to be done. Nimbus is the dog who gets all the other dogs at the salon riled up. Daysie sweats in panicked silence, and Cadie's whole hairy body shakes with fear and she hyperventilates. It's just as stressful on us as it is on them. We counter all that with tons of play time and puppy treats. Now that the weather is getting better we can do walks again too!

All in all though, that's a pretty easy weekend for me. I am blessed.